The scene opens with a conversation between ninghuan and his wife . . She tells him that she has received a message from her mother saying that she does not want him to go to her grandfather's party. He tells her that his mother was burned to death by zixing in the past, and that he is angry at her for her marriage with fuxing. She says that she is not angry at him because she has already married . He says that he will help her, but that she will not be able to have any contact with her parents anymore. He asks her if she wants to play chess with him, and she says she will stand beside him and teach him.